Sharaf Tariq

Sharaf Tariq (1939-2010) was a Brigadier-General of the Egyptian Army who commanded the Egyptian 10th Army during the Egyptian Liberation of Dongola in 2001-02.

Biography
Sharaf Tariq was born in 1939 in Cairo, Anglo-Egypt Sudan (present-day Egypt) to a Greek Orthodox Christian family. Tariq attended the Cairo Military Academy for the Egyptian Army in 1957-1962 and graduated 13th out of 90 students, and Tariq was made a Major in the Egyptian 1st Army. He fought in the Six-Day War of 1967 and took part in the invasion of southern Israel, and he was wounded by a bullet to the arm during the conflict. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel and fought in the Yom Kippur War at the head of two regiments of Egyptian troops, and commanded the two regiments in Gharbia.

In 2001, Tariq was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General and took command of the Egyptian 10th Army during the Egyptian Liberation of Dongola. General Tariq's 10th Army moved to fight the Sudanese Army and Cameroonian Expeditionary Corps (CEC) in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, and scored many victories. He was rewarded for his services with public recognition, and he retired in 2003. He died in 2010 of lung cancer, caused by his obsession with smoking.